#hone

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

A statement of truth, and that is: Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible. ↗

— Felicia Martin

#inspirational #religious #truth #inspirational

I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#romance #truth-inspirational #inspirational

The less you look to others, the more you find in yourself. What have you found in yourself. ↗

— Ron W. Rathbun

#honesty #inspirational #life #the-mind-and-self-relfection #inspirational

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open. ↗

— Ethan from "The Thunder in Heaven"

#inspirational #life #loss #inspirational

We always remember our first love as if they were our last and wish our last love was just like our first. ↗

— Nicholas Graveheart

#inspirational #realistic #inspirational

You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all. ↗

— Catherine Coulter

#men #sex #simile #telephones #men

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest. ↗

— Ralph Moody

#effort #honesty #resourcefulness #responsibility #men

If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them. ↗

— Joe Clifford Faust

#inspiration #values #inspirational